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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

interpreting dreams (Herodotus 1:120, 128, etc.; Strabo 15:3:15; Plutarch, Quaest. conv. 4:5:2; Dio Chrysostom 49:7).10 Later the word came to be used of those who possessed superior knowledge and ability, including astrologers, oriental sages, and soothsayers in general (Aristotle, frag. 27; Josephus, Ant. 10:195, 216); it also became a label for all ‘sorcerers’ and ‘magicians’ (Dan 2:2, 10 LXX; T. Reub. 4:9; Philo, Spec. leg. 3:93) and, finally, for ‘quacks’, ‘deceivers’, and ‘seducers’ (Sophocles,
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